Succeeding in institutional-related areas of consulting
To build a successful career institutional-related areas, which are the areas that we mainly work in at our Corporate Advisory Division, you need to have a keen interest in organizations and how different resources are put together to obtain specific pre-set, or guided results. You would need to have a passion for understanding how different businesses work, how they compete, and how they cope with various challenges.
While organizations may seem to present similar concerns, the causes for such concerns vary widely, as do the probable solutions. This calls for ingenuity and a fresh perspective of each client assignment.
The main emphasis here is on developing sound understanding of different business models, and how different variables in each model can be optimized to deliver unique results for varying client situations.
It will help if you have a broad understanding of business concepts in finance, marketing, economics, and project management, as well as appreciation of global trends in technology, politics, governance and social order within different communities across the world.
Succeeding in people and productivity-related areas of consulting
In addition to the capabilities you need to succeed in institution-related areas of consulting, you would need to have a passion for developing ways in which organizations can attain sustainable competitive advantage through their people and the models within which they work.
Working in People Performance will require you to start with the end in mind: “what do organizations want to achieve and how can they use people to achieve their goals”? Your ability to think systematically, break down complex organizational performance requirements into specific individual performance competencies and to establish reliable bases for the evaluation of performance are invaluable when you work in our People Performance Division.
Different organizations, however, have different cultures, and draw from different experiences, which means that no one solution fits all. In addition to this, like most other areas of our work, there are new developments each day in how organizations seek to build competitive advantage around people. This means that in addition to your latent capabilities, continuous learning at a personal level is a must for you to maintain relevance as an advisory professional.